Quote Originally Posted by Loony BoB View Post
First thing I did at my PC when I woke up was watch you beat Chaos. Was great fun watching/listening for the first few hours, though, I really enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. You had good interaction with the audience and there were a lot of people watching, so I'm really chuffed this went so well. We should do this more often!

I really want to start streaming FFXIV using Twitch, but when I tried it, it kept cutting out constantly. Any advice regarding this would be appreciated. I use Open Broadcasting Software at the moment, since it's free. It works fine for Football Manager 2013, but I suspect something to do with the fact that both smitten and I are playing an MMO like FFXIV is using a lot of our network resources and perhaps the stream on top of that just won't work. Not sure, though... maybe I can tweak it to work a little better.
That's why Twitch is great. It's the next best thing to a bunch of people sitting on a couch playing a game together. Except only one person gets to play. Everyone was helping out when I started failing hard at Chaos. It was a team effort.

There are a lot of things that affect how well you can stream. Your CPU and network upload speed would be the two most important. CPU might be the limiting factor for a game like FFXIV (guessing blindly here). That game is already CPU-intensive.

Reduce the resolution of FFXIV and make OBS use the same resolution for your stream, so that OBS doesn't need to scale the video. I can run games at 1920x1080 at 60+ FPS, but my computer can't stream smoothly at anything over 1280x720 at 30FPS. Then start turning off visual effects in FFXIV until it streams smoothly. Also hope you live physically close to a Twitch server that doesn't suck.

Quote Originally Posted by Elskidor View Post
I didn't end popping in for long, but I did a few times and what I saw was fun. I didn't think the game was so short though...I mean, I knew it was a short game, but not that short. Well done.
I was hurrying a bit. I was running from a lot of battles and I already knew where everything was, and I wasn't reading all the dialog. If someone was playing blind, it'd be a longer game. Every game is pretty short when you rush it, actually. Here's someone beating FF6 in 4.5 hours:

EssentiaFour - FFVI SS Speedrun - 4:36 game time, 4:57 real time - Twitch